Friday, May 28, 2021

Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Leaders Get Prison Sentences For A 2019 Protest

Pro-democracy activists Leung Kwok-hung, center, and Lee Cheuk-yan walk to a Hong Kong Correctional Services van Friday before being driven to their sentencing hearing. Both received three years in prison on for organizing and attending an authorized protest on China

The ten veteran activists will serve up to three years in prison as China continues punishing the organizers of the regionwide demonstrations against Beijing's rule in 2019.

(Image credit: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)

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